Status

Home Tab phase 1 landed Fx13. Phase 2 work in progress now with UX team.

Team

Product manager

Chris Lee

Directly Responsible Individual

Chris Lee

Lead engineer

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Security lead

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Privacy lead

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Localization lead

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Accessibility lead

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QA lead

Vlad Ghetiu

UX lead

Jennifer Morrow

Product marketing lead

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Operations lead

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Additional members

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Open issues/risks

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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

Firefox Home Tab is a small pinned tab placed at the far left of the tab strip that will serve as the user's home on the Web. The plan is for this interface to be locally hosted, customizable, and personalized to the needs of each individual user.

With the introduction of Apps and Identity into Firefox, a user's Home Tab will be the central location where users can access some of their most valuable content. Firefox will offer easy access to things users are familiar with today (Bookmarks, History, Settings, Downloads) as well as introduce the Apps Marketplace -- a great place to discover exciting new content on the Web.

As the content on the Home Tab evolves, we believe this page should be completely for the user. The goal is to make this page as customizable as possible, and offer valuable modules that really enhance the Firefox experience.

The work here will be broken out into multiple phases with details of each phase below.

2. Users & use cases

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3. Dependencies

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4. Requirements

Phase 1

The work here is focused on the content of the about:home page

Tab infrastructure does not change and about:home will remain as a tab (vs. a pinned tab)

In this phase we will introduce launchers to the the Firefox Home page. See the UX spec below to see what this looks like. These launchers will serve as a starting point to access common activities for Firefox users today.